Minuscule 70

Minuscule 70 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 521 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century. The manuscript has complex contents. Marginalia are incomplete.

Description
The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels on 186 leaves (size $$). The text is written in one column per page, 23 lines per page. The large initial letters in gold and colour.

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, in Latin like minuscule 62. It contains the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages and there are some marginal corrections made by Budaeus and some by Hermonymus.

Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.

According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx in Luke 1 and Luke 20. In Luke 10 no profile was made. It belongs to the textual cluster 17.

In Matthew 1:11 it has additional reading τον Ιωακιμ, Ιωακιμ δε εγεννησεν (of Joakim, and Joakim was the father of). The reading is supported by Codex Campianus, Koridethi, manuscripts of the textual family f1, Minuscule 17, 33, 71, and 120; the reading was cited by Griesbach in his Novum Testamentum Graece.

History
The manuscript was written in Paris between 1491 and 1494 for Guillaume Budé by George Hermonymus (like codices 30 and 287). It once belonged to Bunckle of London, then to Bishop Moore. It was used by John Mill in his Novum Testamentum (as Bu.). C. R. Gregory saw it in 1885.

It is currently housed in at the Cambridge University Library (Ll. 2.13), at Cambridge.